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Joint Research Project CO2MAN (CO2MAN Reservoir Management): Continuation of Research and Development Work for CO2 Storage at the Ketzin Pilot Site

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Geological Storage of CO2 – Long Term Security Aspects

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The joint project CO2MAN (CO2 Reservoir Management) was a scientific programme accompanying geological CO2 storage at the Ketzin pilot site in the German Federal State of Brandenburg. The project which was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) from 1 September 2010 to 31 December 2013 enclosed six scientific institutions and seven industry partners. The Ketzin pilot site is the longest-operating on-shore CO2 storage site in Europe. In advance of the CO2MAN project, CO2 injection had already started in June 2008 and storage operation had been accompanied by one of the world’s most extensive scientific research and development programmes. The CO2MAN project took advantage of this unique potential of the site in order to answer further technical and scientific questions on CO2 storage and to inform about this highly debated technology. The CO2MAN project demonstrates safe geological CO2 storage at the Ketzin site on a pilot scale.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank all participants of the CO2MAN project who made the Ketzin project a success. We would also like to acknowledge the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF—Grant numbers 03G0760A to F), Dillinger Hüttenwerke, OMV, RWE, Saarstahl, Statoil and Vattenfall for funding as well as the site owner VGS and the Projektträger Jülich for their continuous support.

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    Sonja Martens, Ronald Conze, Marco De Lucia, Jan Henninges, Thomas Kempka, Axel Liebscher, Stefan Lüth, Fabian Möller, Ben Norden, Bernhard Prevedel, Cornelia Schmidt-Hattenberger, Alexandra Szizybalski, Andrea Vieth-Hillebrand, Hilke Würdemann, Kornelia Zemke & Martin Zimmer

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Martens, S. et al. (2015). Joint Research Project CO2MAN (CO2MAN Reservoir Management): Continuation of Research and Development Work for CO2 Storage at the Ketzin Pilot Site. In: Liebscher, A., Münch, U. (eds) Geological Storage of CO2 – Long Term Security Aspects. Advanced Technologies in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13930-2_1

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